Seaside town at breaking point over asylum seeker tensions

A British seaside resort has become a “powder keg” after tension between locals and asylum seekers threatens to tear the town apart. 

Police in Skegness, Lincolnshire, were forced to ban people from congregating on the resort’s seafront – making it a no-go area and now officers are gearing up for a protest march next weekend which is being organised by the residents who are angered by the high number of young male ­refugees being housed in the town. 

This follows violent clashes between protesters and police in Liverpool when locals protested outside a migrant centre following on from reports of migrants harassing young girls and pestering them for their phone numbers. 

The tension in Skegness has grown after hundreds of migrants from the Middle East, Africa and Albania were crammed into former tourist hotels on the seafront. One Skegness resident said: “I know of at least one woman carrying a hunting knife when she walks her dog late at night because she does not feel safe on the seafront”. 

Cars have been vandalised, shop windows broken, mattresses set on fire and scuffles have been reported between migrants and security staff. Officials say 229 asylum seekers are staying in up to seven hotels on and around the town’s promenade, but locals say the figure is more like 900. 

Shocked residents are angry and being left feeling very vulnerable, many are speaking out… 

 “The first we knew was when three or four coachloads showed up in November.” 

“People have been shocked. Ladies are feeling very threatened because they are all men in their early 20s.” 

“They are hanging around in groups at the nightclub entrances when the girls are coming out” 

This is happening in towns and cities all over the country and it is only going to get worse. This must stop, and STOP NOW 

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